Aefareth

Geography

Aefareth is a large continent split into two halves by an massive and impassable mountain range that extends across the middle of the continent from the west coast of the continent to the east coast. South of the mountain range is a prosperous area with plenty of access to fresh water and vegetation and is split into several kingdoms, with only two territories being described as desert areas.
North of the mountain range is an inhospitable area. The three main terrains are the Maelia Glaciers, the Taesi Wastelands and the Deserts of Kinomere. Apart from the Maelia Glaciers, the land has little access to fresh water and the terrains are all rife with deadly animals and monsters. Only four/five kingdoms have territories north of the mountain range and thrive solely with the assitance of the elves.
Aefareth also consists of multiple island kingdoms. South of the mountain range is connected with four islands, and north of the mountain range is connected with six/seven.

History

13,000 years ago, Aefareth was one unified continent, with the entire landmass being coverred in lush and fertile greenery, an ideal place to live. However, it was empty of life save for the animals that roamed its lands, with the closest inhabitants being the elves who resided on the Elven Islands and the faeries who lived in the Fae Lands just north of the continent.
However, one year, several boats carrying humans crashed on the shores of Southern Aefareth - what would later become known as Northumbria. They had landed on the continent by accident, but with no way to return to where they had come from, the humans decided to make new homes on the land. The elves greeted them, and welcomed them, and even offered their assistance in building settlements on the continent. However, they also warned that they should treat the land with respect, as the land was filled with very old and powerful magic, and would retaliate if they did not. The humans made their promise to follow the elves' advice and accepted their help.
Over the years, kingdoms began to pop up across the southern area of Aefareth, and even on the islands surrounding the south of the continent, with a couple of the kingdoms on the mainland even integrating themselves with the elves, allowing the elves to mix their bloodlines with their own and bestow upon their descendants the ability to use magic - although this was usually only done with the humans who had taken up the positions of monarchs of these kingdoms, therefore only giving magic to the royal families of these kingdoms.
The kingdoms, with the help of the elves, prospered greatly and remembered their promise to the elves to not disrespect the land. They cultivated it, and when they had to disrupt it to make way for new settlements, kingdoms and buildings, they made sure to plant trees and other greenery elsewhere to make up for the ones they had gotten rid of. However, not all of these people followed the elves advice.
When groups of humans began to make their way towards the northern area of Aefareth to create new kingdoms there, they did not respect the land like those in the south had. They disrupted the earth, destroyed forests and removed large swathes of greenery to build their settlements without planting new ones to make up for it. Just like the elves had warned, the land soon retaliated. It transformed the fertile soil in barren wastelands, scorching deserts and freezing glaciers, and mutated the animals living there into vicious and bloodthirsty monsters.
The majority of the humans who had relocated to the north were killed by these mutated animals, and the remaining survivors began to flee back to the kingdoms in the south. However, the monsters followed them. To protect the southern kingdoms from being overrun by these monsters, the Arcane and Earth Elves worked together to use their magic to create a huge and impassable mountain range that split the continent in half to keep the monsters in the northern area. However, it also trapped the survivors of the first northern kingdoms there too. The Elves initially wanted to take them over the mountains and back into the southern area through the use of dragons, but were stopped by the spirits of the land, who told them that the humans had to remain in the now inhospitable lands of the northern area as punishment for what they did.
The elves agreed to not take the survivors into the southern area, howver, out of guilt, they did help the survivors build new kingdoms to protect them from the monsters, and provided the five new kingdoms with the supplies that they needed to survive, but never provided a way to get out of what became known as Felhedell, or the Northern Lands.
Meanwhile, south of the newly formed mountain range, more and more kingdoms began to pop up, and the southern region became known as Northumbria, or the Safe Lands (by the people of Felhedell).

Contents

Type

Continent

Included Locations

• Felhedell
• The Aefarethen Mountains

Additional Rulers/Owners

• Archer Suilius Falco
• Brithyen
• Crorfo Vovovis (Neviel)
• Eelis Kivelä
• Eimed Ceshe (Airolyra)
• Erlas Caimyar (Lehlian)
• Everlith Varieth
• Fiah Vuvelil (Khaenan)
• Firvuntal Neim (Ailaeniel)
• Jirlamzas Zyedyavri (Hevaria)
• Juhlein Khila (Nerian)
• Kaliphiusei
• Kaojo-No Fuethezred (Nainyth)
• Kueta-Neh Fuuldrukt (Nisha)
• Luirlan Nerithana
• Meider Kosk (Aevarin)
• Merellien Zylzana
• Meri Sururni (Veavia)
• Mio Shiaoy (Meadia)
• Nadaelrös Valthyra
• Nehnur Zeinnu (Cisian)
• Neihmin Nendrahd (Ceoris)
• Nelaeryn Eilvaris
• Nisar Sagovir (Xairis)
• Theofanis Karalilis

Ruling/Owning Rank

Southern Monarch

Related Ethnicities

• Felhedellan

Contested By

• Aes
• Aevarin
• Ailaeniel
• Airolyra
• Ayuipan
• Caelestis
• Ceoris
• Cisian
• Hevaria
• Khaehan
• Khelas Desert Tribe
• Kingdom of Afedell
• Kingdom of Ilylanora
• Kingdom of Irarion
• Kingdom of Naenlune
• Kingdom of the Fae Realm
• Lehlian
• Meadia
• Nainyth
• Nerian
• Neviel
• Nisha
• Sofía-Larimar
• Tuntemattomaan
• Veavia

Inhabiting Species

• Human